While Cooper slept
I write this in the morning, with coffee, about whoever tapped at our little website while Cooper and I were asleep.
Updated 13 Nov 2026, 11:19 IST · numbers are for Thursday 12 November
Last night
Yesterday, 587 strangers rattled the gate. Cooper slept through it.
- 587turned away yesterday
- 4,955since 8 Nov
- 28were hunting for hidden secret files
The last seven days
Last night is the gold one.
- 208Sun8 Nov
- 2,389Mon9 Nov
- 1,298Tue10 Nov
- 473Wed11 Nov
- 587Thu12 Nov
Who knocked
Most of them were rented computers, not somebody's home.
Where they knocked from
- 🇮🇳 India249
- 🇸🇬 Singapore123
- 🇷🇺 Russia81
- 🇺🇸 United States63
- 🇫🇷 France44
Last night's top five.
What they wanted
- Secret files. 28 knocks were looking for hidden notes, spare keys and old copies. We don't keep those on this website.
- Fake admin doors. 92 tried addresses that look like a private way in for whoever runs a site. Those doors don't exist here.
- Grabbing pages too fast. 210 tried to copy the site faster than any person reads.
What they guessed
Names they tried: admin, user, support, test, ubnt, operator, telecomadmin, user1, steam, anonymous
Passwords they tried: 123456
If any of these is your password, change it today.
Common passwords tried since 23 Dec 2025
We started counting in December 2025. Bots also tried 155 swear words and slurs as passwords. We still count them, but we don't show them here.
Never use these passwords. Replace any you use, everywhere you reused them. Choose unique passwords from a password manager, or passkeys where available; otherwise enable two-step verification. NCSC guide to passkeys · CISA advice on strong passwords
| # | Password | Times tried | First seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 123456 | 236,905 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 2 | 111111 | 173,159 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 3 | 123 | 153,848 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 4 | 1234 | 50,655 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 5 | 1 | 39,353 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 6 | 12345 | 38,213 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 7 | 12345678 | 35,641 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 8 | 123456789 | 29,195 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 9 | password | 26,871 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 10 | 1234567 | 26,678 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 11 | 1234567890 | 26,385 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 12 | admin | 23,775 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 13 | test | 15,256 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 14 | root | 13,164 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 15 | qwerty | 12,132 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 16 | 000000 | 9,346 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 17 | admin123 | 8,851 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 18 | abc123 | 8,166 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 19 | 1qaz2wsx | 8,144 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 20 | 123123 | 8,109 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 21 | guest | 6,873 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 22 | 1q2w3e4r | 6,546 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 23 | a | 6,528 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 24 | pass | 6,478 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 25 | 123qwe | 6,451 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 26 | toor | 6,070 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 27 | user | 5,927 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 28 | system | 5,240 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 29 | 123321 | 5,048 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 30 | 666666 | 4,447 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 31 | test123 | 4,156 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 32 | password1 | 4,070 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 33 | pass1234 | 4,031 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 34 | 0 | 3,913 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 35 | passwd | 3,729 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 36 | 1111 | 3,540 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 37 | 159357 | 3,511 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 38 | 1234qwer | 3,428 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 39 | 5201314 | 3,306 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 40 | tomcat | 3,296 | 25 Dec 2025 |
| 41 | 11111111 | 3,246 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 42 | raspberry | 3,169 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 43 | default | 3,143 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 44 | windows | 3,121 | 23 Dec 2025 |
| 45 | qwe123 | 3,115 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 46 | administrator | 3,108 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 47 | 8888888 | 2,996 | 27 Dec 2025 |
| 48 | qwer1234 | 2,826 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 49 | abcd1234 | 2,791 | 24 Dec 2025 |
| 50 | linux | 2,721 | 24 Dec 2025 |
And 6,864 more. See all 6,914.
From me and Cooper
I'm Sunny, and Cooper is our diabetic yellow Lab. After dinner he lies on the mat by the front door and snores as if the street belonged to him. I read these notes with my morning coffee; he sleeps through the rattling.
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